One of the most simplistic Marvel movies that I’ve seen, and all the better for it.

Breaking continuity with The Fantastic Four, Chris Evans this time becomes the hero in the red, white and blue fancy dress, but ironically no actual cap. For decades now superhero movies have sought to rationalise the plainly ridiculous costumes that the comics have drawn their main characters wearing, but this explanation soars over them all. Cap’s costume design is a costume – inherited from his initial career as the US military’s poster-boy. Genius. Was that in the original comic? I’ve no idea.

Not quite breaking continuity with Iron Man 2, Dominic Cooper becomes a younger version of Tony Stark’s dad. In a movie where all the characters are so easy to get a handle on, this can only make things even easier.

Embracing continuity with Iron Man, Samuel L Jackson returns briefly as Nick Fury, not just to close the film, but also in the final post-credits tag. In fact, hang on, thanks to the fantastic trailer for the following year’s Avengers movie, we also get Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark Jr, AND Chris Hemsworth as Thor!

How’s that for making me leave my local Auckland cinema on a high?!?

I’m well impressed with the way that Marvel have strung this build-up out. For all their millions of dollars, films have always been the poor relative of TV when it comes to a (cough) bigger picture. Stories in real life always take place in a much broader, more complex context, and Marvel Comics have done so well to reflect this with their shared universe down the decades. How wondrous that someone has finally seen fit to attempt to transfer this rare quality across media.

Film-making
Radio
Acting
Still photography
Teaching
I’ve travelled a bit
I like diversity
I’m a good listener
I can spell millennium
I buy fair trade coffee and free range eggs
I exercise
I’m positive-minded
Honesty and doing the right thing are more important to me than anything else, although I consistently fail at them

Some things I'm still working on:

All of the above
I have difficulty remembering names and faces
I have little sense of geographical direction
Time-management (I need deadlines)
I rarely get to bed early
I’m not very good at making things happen
I sometimes get annoyed at computers
I don’t like confronting people
I find it hard to tell people ‘no’
Sometimes people disbelieve me
I was unpopular at all my schools, and had to move because I wouldn't hit anyone back
I find prayer difficult
I sometimes mistrust God
I've never seen Lord Of The Rings or The Empire Strikes Back, so please don't tell me what happens. :)

Neither here nor there:

I like plain white or loud colours
I’m always busy
I'm quiet in a crowd
I don’t like using the phone
I've never been on a date
Yes, that has always hurt

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Current favourite Bible verses:

I may promise life to a good man, but if he starts thinking that his past goodness is enough and begins to sin, I will not remember any of the good he did. He will die because of his sins.
Ezekiel 33:13

I may warn an evil man that he is going to die, but if he stops sinning and does what is right and good - for example, if he returns the security he took for a loan or gives back what he stole - if he stops sinning and follows the laws that give life, he will not die, but live.
Ezekiel 33:14-15

If he changes the way he thinks and acts, forgive him.
Luke 17:3b

The word of truth lasts forever,
but lies last only a moment.
Proverbs 12:19

Be honest and you show that you have reverence for the LORD;
be dishonest and you show that you do not.
Proverbs 14:2

You should each judge your own conduct. If it is good, then you can be proud of what you yourself have done, without having to compare it with what someone else has done.
Galatians 6:4

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